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Monday, August 4, 2014

1958 Topps Baseball
At Dean's Cards, we buy hundreds of vintage baseball card collections every year. These collections range from cards acquired during childhood (that have most likely been sitting in a closet or attic for years), to collectors selling their baseball card sets and cards that have taken years to acquire through shows, card shops, or a websites like DeansCards.com.

Everyone has their own reasons for selling their vintage cards. One of the reasons could be a collector wanting to sell their duplicate cards. We've had many cases of customers and clients sending us their dupes in order to maybe focus on another part of their collection, or simply clean out the attic or closet a little bit. Here's an example of a customer that sent us his extra 1958 Topps Baseball cards for us to purchase.

The "bulk" of the collection

It's no understatement to say that we just bought
box upon box of 1958 Topps cards.

For those who may not be experts, the 1958 Topps Baseball Card Set is easier to build than some other sets released around the same time. 1957 Topps Baseball has an expensive mid-series, that can make the set a bit pricier to complete. 1959 Topps Baseball has a high number series that's slightly more expensive, and also has almost 80 more cards than its 1958 counterpart. This makes 1958 Topps Baseball an appealing set to build for those new to collecting Topps cards from the 1950s.

Altogether, we purchased over 3,000 cards from 1958 Topps. Many of these were duplicates. We LOVE buying collections like this. If you aren't familiar with how our "Everyday Discounts" work, click here. The more cards we have in inventory and the more cards you buy, the more you save! Nobody else has the selection of 1958 Topps as Deanscards.com.

There was an exceptional amount of All-Star cards included in this collection. Even though they were part of the all-stars subset, not all of these guys were big-time Hall of Famers. Herb Score wasn't even an All-Star in 1957. He actually was hurt for most of the season after being hit in the head by a line drive off the bat of Gil McDougald. A promising pitching career, for all intensive purposes, was cut short as Score would never return to form after the injury. Virtually every other player depicted in this subset would go on to have productive careers in the big leagues.

If you're interested in selling your collection to us, please read our seller testimonials. On there you will find dozens upon dozens of satisfied clients. For more information on selling a vintage baseball collection in general, please click here. We look forward to hearing from you!